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Harper Brothers have announced the opening of their eighth biennial Prize Noel contest ending on February 1, 1937. A panel of judges has been appointed including Sinclair Lewis, Thornton Wilder, and Lewis Bromfield...
...EVERYTHING-Louis Bromfield-Harper...
...Louis Bromfield, who once excited both critics and readers by his precocious promise and then reneged by turning out thin stuff, last fortnight produced a story that was a bit too thick. Even to readers who know little or nothing about Author Bromfield's own career, The Man Who Had Everything will sound suspiciously like boasting. Not an autobiographical novel, it presents some striking similarities between its hero and its author. Even Bromfield enthusiasts may be shocked at this expression of his high opinion of himself, but readers who have begun to suspect that he is only a literary...
...divorce. Meantime Tom's mistress was going haywire and ruining a good chance in Hollywood because he had cast her off. Tom, feeling pretty much put upon by these events, got all broody and drunk. Luckily for Tom's peace of mind and Author Bromfield's cinemarty ending, the girl who had given his house its sentimental associations appeared at this point-buxom and widowed now, but bristling with Gallic sense. She gave Tom a good talking to, sent him back to the U.S. to marry his long-suffering mistress...
...Luxe (by Louis Bromfield & John Gearon; Chester Erskin producer) is the kind of play which is so embarrassingly bad that it makes a playgoer's flesh crawl. Billed as "a play about the end of an epoch," it presents a frieze of specious, spotty and purportedly War-wrecked characters against a recent Armistice Day celebration in Paris. Rarely encountered outside the pages of bogus novels, these gloomy folk go about telling each other that they are "so tired," complaining of "the jitters," wishing they were dead. Once in a while one encourages another to "buck...